Nice work dude, 850MHz is solid for a 480. The real life smoothness is almost unmatched compared to a previous gen SLI setup. Fermis are still very nice card when you poke a stick at them. Your temps seems well in line too I saw 71C max during 3D Mark which is well below anything to worry about. I'm happy your games just got a whole lot more fun!!!

I'd rather not mention the names of the games I've tried on this, but you all play them right now.... The performance difference between sli gtx285 and just one gtx480 is huge. The minimum fps is much higher, and in most most games it's just constant 60+ fps now. And you can use ultra settings, and max aa. And that's in dx11 mode if the game has it. I can't wait to get a 2nd 480!

Oh, and about the fan noise. At 100% this is the loudest fan I've ever heard. It overpowers my 8 case and 2 cpu fans, which all run at 100%. It's louder by far than the 2 fans on my old 285s at 100%. But for this performance at 71c max.. I'll take it. And yes, I like the loud noise! If you like quiet, get water....

Well yeah, pretty much what I meant, my quite oced 480 can match a stock ti. I'm still going to get a 2nd 480 before I get tired of playing with this series though! Next step after that will be a 680, and then sli 680s... I like high end, I just can't afford to be current!

Well yeah, pretty much what I meant, my quite oced 480 can match a stock ti. I'm still going to get a 2nd 480 before I get tired of playing with this series though! Next step after that will be a 680, and then sli 680s... I like high end, I just can't afford to be current!

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I will stick to my stack of 470's watercooled they should still perform better when I crank them out to 900-940mhz core or so.

Dam I wish I could get 900 out of this card, but even at 1.1v it won't do it. Weird that it will do 850 at 1.05v though....
I guess there is a sweet spot for voltage and clocks. If I could push 1.13v into it and keep it cool, I guess that would work,
I'm just not willing to push more volts for such a small increase... oh well.

And now I'll double post... Wrigley, could you post some specs, numbers, anything at all to add to this thread other than a complaint about my double posting? I'd really like to see what you are doing with that card! Anything to help the rest of us out?